A Philadelphia police officer was shot by a fleeing murder suspect this morning after attempting to serve an arrest warrant. The officer managed to return fire, striking and killing the suspect. It happened at 6:10 a.m. Wednesday at an apartment complex in the 800 block of Riverside Drive in Northeast Philadelphia. SWAT officers went to the apartment of 26-year-old Devon Guisherd to arrest...

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Police are gathering evidence after two people used a bomb to blow up an ATM in Hunting Park. Surveillance video shows two people approach the machine at 6th and Luzerne streets and then running away. Seconds later the machine exploded sending pieces of it flying 100 feet away. Fortunately, no one was injured and police report that no money was missing from the device.

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Democratic Governor Tom Wolf and Republican legislative leaders say talks Tuesday on Pennsylvania's three week-old budget stalemate were productive, but there were no breakthroughs reported. Perhaps the best sign is that Tuesday’s negotiating session between the governor and GOP legislative leaders, which lasted more than three hours, was by far the longest since Wolf vetoed a...

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Philadelphia's own Kurt Vile has released the video for the first track off his upcoming album b'lieve i'm goin down called "Pretty Pimpin." The video itself was filmed in California and plays like a visual round as Vile's character starts to double and triple as the song evolves. Musically, "Pimpin'" has more of a driving groove that rolls along through track than his last album...

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SEPTA announced today that they will not resume selling the special Regional Rail passes for the upcoming visit by Pope Francis for the remainder of this week. The system set up to take orders for the special Papal Passes was overwhelmed with traffic on Monday morning and had to be shut down shortly after it was launched. SEPTA officials are working on fixing the system and consulting with...

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A guilty plea is expected from one of the men accused in a deadly Center City building collapse. Crane operator Sean Benschop's lawyer says he will plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter charges at a hearing Tuesday. Six people died in June 2013 when a brick wall being demolished fell onto the roof of a Salvation Army thrift store. Blood tests showed Benschop had marijuana and prescription...

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The 54th Annual Philadelphia Folk Fest is only about three weeks away starting Thursday night, August 13th for campers and really kicking into gear Friday-Sunday August 14th -16th with music programmed on multiple stages. A lot of that music will be provided by incredibly talented Philadelphia-area musicians as a part of the Philadelphia Folksong Society's Philadelphia Music Co-op. The Co-op will...

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Country superstars and it's most popular couple, Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert, announced on Monday that they are getting divorced after four years of marriage. They filed for divorce a while ago and made it official yesterday. "This is not the future we envisioned," the former couple said in a statement. "And it is with heavy hearts that we move forward separately. We are real people,...

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July 18/19 Playlist - Michael Tearson's Marconi Experiment - Radio Concerts

1) "White Light White Heat" by Lou Reed
2) "Johnny Strikes Up The Band" by Warren Zevon
3) "The Big Country" by Talking Heads
4) "Crazy Little Thing" by Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band
5) "Man With the Child in his Eyes" by Kate Bush
6) "Take a Giant Step" by Taj...

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SEPTA has suspended online sales of special passes for Regional Rail service during Pope Francis' visit to Philadelphia in September due to technical problems. SEPTA had load tested the website over the weekend for 1,700 hits per seconds and expected a high volume of traffic when the passes went on sale at 9 a.m. Monday, but the actual traffic today was significantly higher and the servers...

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